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Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:56 pm
by Niko
Greetings staff and fellow players!

I have recently started leveling together with a good friend of mine, we are doing a tag team as druid warlock and we are absolutely loving it.

What I have come to do is to shine some light upon a smaller issue that my friend is finding very frustrating, especially since world pvp is a fact while leveling on Nostalrius (hallelujah!).
I have myself played druid as well on another private vanilla projects, name not mentioned but there has been no such excruciating shapeshifting delay as there appears to be here on Nost.

Following is a direct quote of my friend, who does not like to venture the halls of forums and asked me to put this up here.

Following conditions:

- 35-41 ms (great) latency
- anywhere between 2500 - 6000 online players (minimal server lag)
- the addOn "Snowfall Keypress" (ability begins on key-PRESS instead of key-RELEASE)
- randomly taken scenarios, due to the fact that I saw this becoming an issue in PvP as a druid
- this "delay" does not affect any other abilities (healing etc.)
- recorded between 21st of June and 25th of June, 2015


Ever since I started on this server, and got the shapeshifts, I've been having trouble with shapeshift delay here (not on other projects). This hasn't driven me insane until now, where I actively PvP and where I am not just stuck in one form during a combat scenario.
If you question my use of Macros for shapeshifting in/out, I can say that those are the same as on any other server, and does not contain anything fancy... They're as simple as i.e

/unbuff Form
/cast Cat Form

I'd love to see this somewhat looked at, and preferably fixed (!), as I am only here because of the PvP.

Thank you in advance!
Regards,
Ilkkjoejkkj


Furthermore, here's a video which shows what kind of a delay it is and a timer to show long actually it takes even to exit the forms.
We did compare with a screensplit and I had absolutely no delay what so ever at the same time as he recorded, neither did he have any delay and/or internal cooldown on anything else outside of shapeshifting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn72onvChQI&

Is this intended and something that will be sorted out by upcoming patches or perhaps something you could have a look at? My friend is basically saying he doesn't want to play, I talked him into describing the issue so that I can pass it onto you and perhaps get it fixed.

We came here to rank and enjoy pvp in all it's ways, this however is limiting him and most likely alot of others which will affect the amount of druids playing on the realm, further cutting players from a classpool that is already severely small.

With the best of regards,
Niko and Ilkkjoejkkj

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:15 pm
by Niko
Is it possible to get a reply on this? It would mean alot to quite a few people on the realm, as I have got support ingame with people whispering me they find this heavily annoying.

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:14 pm
by neru2904
The delay or internal CD appears to be in the act of removing the form. I think it has no connection with latency. It's some kind of failure that causes the action to be delayed. There is no way to properly play druids this way, as hybrids, we always support the group with healing or offtanking and we need a quick shapshift to do so.

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:03 pm
by Robotron
Keep the RP in other threads, not in support, please.

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:53 pm
by Niko
Is this being looked upon, queued infor being looked upon or anything?
Would be really nice to know!

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:54 pm
by evobcn
Could we have a mature reply, instead of this nonsense?..
As previously stated - also by others than just the people on this thread - this is a major issue for the druid class.

Thank you,
regards Ilkkjoejikkj

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:00 pm
by Niko
Still nothing..?

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:09 pm
by euronmisc
Bump for Niko and Oeje <3

I'm playing a druid on alliance side and with the AV release I've been pvping a lot. Shapeshifting does seem somewhat delayed but I've never tested it as seriously as these two MVPs here.

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:10 pm
by Niko
Hi, can we pretty please at least have a "no, sorry we wont fix this because <reason>"?

Re: Druid shapeshifting internal cooldown?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:23 pm
by Aunstic
I've seen this thread about 10 times now. I'm wondering if anyone has a video or a snippet back in classic/TBC days showing no internal CD on shapeshifting... just because I never played a druid... ever. Would be great to see a druid PvP vid too.